Niamey, sentence 481
From Wikipedia, «Niamey», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Water sachet vendors arose around the 1990s, manually filling sachets imported from Nigeria; factories were established by the early 2000s and supplanted manual production by the 2010s.
Who acts: sachet vendors, early 2000s · What happens: arise, fill, import, establish, supplant · To what, where: 1990s, sachets, Nigeria, factories, manual production
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Niamey». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sachet vendors, early 2000s), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sachet | compound |
| 2 | sachet | sachet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vendors | compound |
| 3 | vendors | vendor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arose | nsubj |
| 4 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 1990s | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 1990s | det |
| 7 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 4 arose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 filling | punct |
| 9 | manually | manually | ADV | _ | 10 filling | advmod |
| 10 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 arose | advcl |
| 11 | sachets | sachet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 filling | obj |
| 12 | imported | import | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sachets | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Nigeria | case |
| 14 | Nigeria | Nigeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 imported | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 established | punct |
| 16 | factories | factory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 established | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 established | aux:pass |
| 18 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 arose | parataxis |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 2000s | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 2000s | det |
| 21 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 2000s | amod |
| 22 | 2000s | 2000 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 18 established | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 supplanted | cc |
| 24 | supplanted | supplant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 established | conj |
| 25 | manual | manual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 production | amod |
| 26 | production | production | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 supplanted | obj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 2010s | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 2010s | det |
| 29 | 2010s | 2010 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 24 supplanted | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | sachet vendors | the 1990s | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around 1990s=Location | ||||
| 2 | fill | gerund | sachet vendors not said here | sachets | manually property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sachet=Patient | |||
| 3 | import | participle | sachets not said here | Nigeria | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from nigeria=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | establish | past · passive | the early 2000s | factories | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | supplant | participle | the early 2000s not said here | manual production | by the 2010s | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme production=Co-Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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